Geography Of Blogs

15% of bloggers spend 10 or more hours each week blogging.
One in five bloggers report updating on a daily basis.
The most common rate of updating is 2-3 times per week.
The majority of blogs use tags (85%).
13% say that they built their blogs themselves from scratch.
59% of respondents use a free third party hosting service.
82% of respondents say that they post photos to their blog, making images the most popular form of multimedia.
13% of all respondents say that they never post any images/videos/audio to their blogs, preferring to just use text.
Of those who use media other than text, 73% say that that they also create the photos, video, or audio they post themselves about half of the time.
75% of those who use syndication syndicate full content.
20% of all users report having updating their blog or adding content from their mobile device.
59% percent report doing so at least somewhat more this year than they did last year.
Fewer than 10% of bloggers say they don’t know the traffic to their blogs.
Bloggers participate in an average of 5 activities to drive traffic to their blogs.
On average 27% of a blogs page views come as referrals from a horizontal search engine.
74% of all respondents use a third party service to track their site traffic. Google Analytics is by far the most popular tool in the space.

Thursday 29 March 2012